Kid Ease, which has five settings in Kent, Essex and Norfolk, bought a share in Healthy Roots Catering to improve the choice and sourcing of nursery meals.
The catering firm will prepare healthy food in the chain's Dover Triangles Nursery and deliver meals to two other settings, Dover Buckland and Hawkinge in Kent, which were recently awarded the Kent Quality Mark, from April.
The chain is now considering extending the partnership to food provision at the Margate nursery based at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital.
Kid Ease managing director Ian Atkey said, 'We have always outsourced our catering and were happy with the company we were using, but wanted to take it to the next stage. After years of looking, we found a caterer that shares the same ethos as us - that children should eat food that is fresh, free range, nutritious and tasty, using natural ingredients while respecting the planet.'
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